In Study 1, the general warning significantly reduced persuasive effects on housing-policy attitudes (b=−1.81, p= 0.001)¶
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q3 i? In Study 1 (N = 1,992), the general warning significantly decreased persuasive effects of an LLM conversation about housing policy. → Reed Orchinik 2026
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Reed Orchinik 2026¶
Reed Orchinik, David Rand. (2026). A light-touch AI literacy intervention helps protect against AI political persuasion. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16432 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.16432
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Preregistered regression in Study 1 (N = 1,992 CloudResearch Connect participants) of a post-treatment scale including attitudes and an incentivized donation decision on the warning dummy, LLM strategy, their interaction, persuasion direction, and pre-treatment scale, with heteroskedasticity-robust standard errors.
"The warning significantly decreased persuasive effects (b=−1.81, [−2.89,−0.74],z=−3.30, p= 0.001)"
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Related Claims¶
- AI literacy warnings reduce LLM political persuasion by roughly one-half (meta-analytic -48.1%) — a broader claim this one bears on
- In Study 2, both general and specific warnings at least marginally reduce attitude change, with no significant difference between them — related
- Test-takers rate LLM-generated feedback as persuasive and useful as human instructor feedback (Wilcoxon signed-rank tests show no significant difference) — related
- Warning effect size shows no significant heterogeneity across topics and studies — related
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In Study 1, the general warning significantly reduced persuasive effects on housing-policy attitudes (b=−1.81, p= 0.001) |
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In Study 1, the general warning significantly reduced persuasive effects on housing-policy attitudes (b=−1.81, p= 0.001) |
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